As a Senior Quality Engineer, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You will provide discipline advice, guidance and support to the business on all matters related to the quality, ensuring outputs meet customer and regulatory requirements in a timely manner. Day-to-day, you'll be a customer quality focal point in the implementation of our ambitious growth plans as part of the Quality team and you will use your proven experience to promote quality throughout the project lifecycle and supply chain.
* Identify, plan and implement a program of activities, via a contract Quality Plan, to provide assurance to the project throughout the project lifecycle defined by the contract.
* Work with the cross-functional delivery team personnel, helping to achieve delivery milestones and ensuring a fit for purpose / quality product to the customer.
* Risk manage project activities, ensuring mitigation in the critical aspects of production and in the final product.
* Evaluate customer requirements against our product quality capabilities, and help translate into a suitable design / contract, and appropriate inspection and test plan.
* Carry out quality audits during the project lifecycle, ensuring process procedures followed and the product is being realised in the appropriate manner.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days in the onsite and 3 days working from home.
* Have a quality background in a related industry and be familiar with the qualities levels and disciplines required.
* Experience of implementing quality improvements and encouraging culture change within an organisation.
* Computer literate with good keyboard skills and understanding of Microsoft Office applications
* Will have an excellent working knowledge of quality tools and problem-solving techniques, and be able to provide guidance to others in the use of them (e.g. Pareto, Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, 5 why's, 8D)., Degree (or equivalent) in quality, Science, or Engineering
* Work based apprenticeship or equivalent experience.
* Membership of a recognised quality institute (CQI would be desirable).
* ISO 9001 auditor.
Security Clearance The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
At Babcock we're working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Quality Engineer at our Whetstone site.
Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK ( What We Offer
* Generous holiday allowance
* Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
* Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
* Employee share scheme
* Employee shopping savings portal
* Payment of Professional Fees
* Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
* Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
* 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
* Flexible working - we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met
* Potential to develop skills
* Opportunity to work on some of the most exciting engineering projects this country has to offer
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